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WHITLEIGH INFANT SCHOOL

Whitleigh Infant School is located at Lancaster Gardens, Whitleigh, Plymouth.

Messrs Louis de Soissons & Partners were the architects and the whole Primary School was designed to accommodate 560 children.

In 1955 this was part of Whitleigh Primary School and Mr I T Smith was Headmaster of the junior school while Miss P Shepherd was Headmistress of the infant school.

Whitleigh Primary School, including the junior mixed section, was one of ten new schools in Plymouth declared officially open by the Minister of Education, the Right Honourable Sir David Mcadam Eccles KCVO MP, on Friday June 15th 1956.  The ceremony was actually held at the then Penlee Secondary Modern School, at Stoke, and was in the presence of the Deputy Lord Mayor, Alderman T H Watkins, and the Director of Education, Doctor Andrew Scotland.  The School had accommodation for 560 pupils at that time.

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